The ROUGHEST Wooden Coasters I've Experienced
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- I've ridden wooden coasters all across America, and these are the 15 roughest experiences that I've had. Some of these coasters have been fixed since then, and I'll point those out as to not scare you off.
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I think we need a sequel for steel coasters as well
I wonder how many Vekoma SLC's would be on that list.
@@ajfrommillay3766 yes
Yes definitely
@@MrBrian-pr9pd Yes indeed!
Cough**vortex at carowinds
All of Conneaut Lake Park felt like a safety hazard. That's what made it so special.
That place was probably the reason I love parks today. Blue Streak was my first "big" coaster, and we used to ride it all day. It's crazy that I find myself missing that place anytime that it's mentioned.
Lmao. NO2h, your comment cracked me up coz its funny and true.
I grew up in PA, and went there a few times about 40 yrs ago.
I liked the tall rug slide.
I heard about the owner being a P.O.S. and he had to sell it. The new owner got rid of many rides, and refurbished many of the other rides, and they tried to make a comeback, but after re - opening for 1 season a few yrs ago, they gave up and closed it down.
They had many neighbors and other volunteers who cleaned the place up and removed old shrubs and trees and re- planted all new trees and fixed up the plants and gardens.
I could be wrong, and maybe you can help clear things up for me.
But, i heard that the coaster caught on fire, and they rebuilt that section and fixed the track. I forget if it burned down before or after they rebuilt it, and then it burned down and they said tear it down for good.
Thanks.
@@glenpolen5562 Yeah. Rumor is that the new owner wanted it gone to make some sort of development but couldn’t since the park was declared a historical site. But he got around it anyways by basically setting up the park to fail. Blue streak burning down was supposedly an accident but I don’t know many people who actually believe that.
@@No2hISwear WOW, THAT SUCKS. Its all about the mighty $$ BIG BUCK $$. I hate when stupid idiots ruin a good thing. Thanks for your reply.
I'd say the same about mount olympus
Blue Streak was the most sketch coaster I ever rode. Even as a kid riding it in the late 80s it was sketchy. It's crazy that I actually miss it though. I would head to Conneaut once a year to reunite with the coaster that began my love of coasters. The first "big" coaster I ever rode. Now it's gone. I have great memories of that place with my friends and family.
FINALLY! Someone else recognizes how shit that coaster is, the restraints are a joke...so much ejector airtime that it feels legit unsafe and the jerkiness kills your neck.
EDIT: Apparently you're not talking about the Cedar Point one...still my point stands.
I will always prefer wooden coasters, I like the roughness, the noise the aesthetics, the engineering feat that they are, it's all so beautiful.
Wooden roller coasters have more give than steel coasters. They're noisy and feel like they're alive. I love Shivering Timbers at Michigan's Adventure the most, as there is a lot of floater airtime. Sit in the back, and you get ejector airtime on the first drop.
@@kagome122885 I love it too, it's really the only great coaster we have here in Michigan, but it was enough to make me fall in love with roller coasters
And a lot of wooden roller coasters have the most extreme airtime.
I love both but I prefer steel since the are able to go upside-down and I love how smooth they are while still feeling very thrilling
well said!!
I know I'm late to the party, but Beast is running SO much better this year! 👍
Ah yes, the Blue Streak at CLP. I think that coaster is the very reason I have a high tolerance for wooden coasters. My aunt used to have a cabin that was a short walk away from the park, so I spent many summers riding it. Of course, it was only during the years that the park actually opened since they had so many years of dealing with bankruptcy. RIP!
Hi Ian, i grew up in PA. My parents took me and my sister there about 40 yrs ago. We liked it. It wasnt KENNYWOOD PARK, but still fun.
I heard about the p.o.s owner.
Then the new owners tried getting it up and running, but it didnt do well its first season, and they closed it for good.
I liked the coaster. It wasnt the jackrabbit, But still fun. Lol.
I heard the new owners really tried to make it work. Did they have a GOFUNDME PAGE?
I heard they had some type of donation that the neighbors contributed to.
The neighbors and volunteers cleaned the park. Refurbished rides, made the plants and gardens nice, and took out old trees. They added more benches. Lol.
I liked the coaster, but did they re fix it and then it burned in a section so, they scrapped it?
Thanks.
@@glenpolen5562 the people who were running conneaut park, before the guy who currently owns it, really did a good job. They turned a profit for a couple consecutive years and even began adding attractions. They put all kind of work into the small water park and I’m pretty sure that’s how they achieved the profit. It was probably the most popular part of conneaut lake park during those years. I was expecting them to eventually fix up buildings and pathways. I really don’t know why they decided to sell to the current guy but I would assume he just wanted the lakeside land for whatever business he wants to put there.
@@iangraham6351 Hi Ian, i forgot all about the waterpark that they put in. Thanks for reminding me. I did hear they did good with it.
Great comment buddy, Thanks.
I hated swimming in their lake. The dam rocks on the bottom sucked. Killed my feet.
I know it is a great
Fishing spot.
Im not sure if the big white hotel is still there or not.
It used to be big time back in the days .
I think VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE stayed there.
I heard that it was haunted. I think i even watched a ghost hunting show about it a few yrs ago.
Did you hear anything about it being haunted.
@@glenpolen5562 That fire was arson plain and simple. And that bastard owner knew it. I hope HE burns in hell like that ride did.
The retracking done on goldstriker absolutely fixed it, it’s SO smooth now and running super well! I went to CGA (which is my home park) like 20-30 times this year and marathoned goldstriker getting an amazing ride every single time
It beat me up pretty good in August, and I like my wooden coasters a little wild and rough
I was surprised to see this, but this year was the first time I rode it.
It's smooth in the first 1/3rd and last 1/3rd, but the middle is very rough. It's not terrible in the front, but in the middle-to-back I have to hold on to brace myself, when Id normally keep my hands up above my head
also, it wasn't so bad in May and June, but in August and September it's noticeably worse
Never ride it before this year, but on my many rides this year I have found it to be sufficiently smooth to reride over and over, and I am pretty sensitive to roughness (I'm 63 years old). It does give me a headache after about 4 rides, due to the nature and resonant frequency of the remaining roughness, so I have to take a brief break. However, for me, reride-ability and comfort figures highly into my own personal ranking for coasters, and this one is in my top 20 of almost 200 ridden. The seat cushions are soft and ample, so that helps. Definitely hold up the lapbar while riding to get best airtime. Last visit, I counted 12 discreet moments of solid airtime, equal to GhostRider and more than Apocalypse, which only has about 9 relatively weak moments. It's a terrific ride.
Great video! I've ridden Son of Beast and the Beast. I rode on Son of Beast in 2001 about a year after it opened and didn't think it was too rough. I've ridden the Beast a lot of different years and never thought it was too rough. It's nice to hear about the improvements on it. Ive thought for years the Racer was rough and thought of it as a one and done ride for the trip anytime I rode it.
Racer was running great this year
@@AirtimeThrills That's great! I didn't know that!
@@miked509 They did a retracking as well as a beautiful paint job on The Racer for the 50th anniversary season at Kings Island. That roller coaster is JUST WONDERFUL.
@@timothykaczmarek5871 Yeah that sounds great. I haven't ridden it in a few years. I had always thought of it as a one and done ride and have heard others say the same.
I rode Son of Beast in 2002 and 2004, and that was the ROUGHEST wooden roller coaster I ever rode. It was worse than the original Rattler and Mean Streak.
Hades 360 was the biggest surprise of my coaster road-trip this year. It definitely was rough, but that may have enhanced it for me. A night ride on Hades 360, especially the section under the parking lot, is unbelievable. Top 5 coaster for me.
Thunderhead is hilarious because the transition from old track to new track was so huge. Went from a jackhammering mess to a flying carpet. It always managed to be just bearable for me, as by the time I was ready to talk out the ride went into the new track.
My little girl makes me ride about 20 times every time we go. The new track really helps it flow at the end.
@@deancornett4432 It's definitely a great ride. Rode it a bunch when I was at Dollywood earlier this year. But yeah if the whole ride was like the first half it would be unbearable.
Gives me hope for the future at least
According to my cousin, who’s the attraction manager at Dollywood, there are two sections of Thunderhead still needing to be retracked: the area of track in front of the station and the turnaround into the fly-through station, and a section he called ‘sector 453’. So they are planning on fixing the roughness.
Thunderhead wasn't that bad IMO. The Beast at KI was horrible before the retrack. It blows my mind that people praise that ride but complain that Thunderhead is too rough
Haven’t watched yet but Grizzly at Kings Dominion and Thunderhawk at Dorney Park
As much as I do love Hades I’ll admit it does run really rough! But I don’t let that get in the way of the amazing ride experience
I've always described Hades as an endurance test, but in a good way. While it is rough, the incredible variety of forces it provides (especially the great airtime of varying length and intensity) make it worthwhile.
I rode it twice in 2019, and it definitely was a jackhammering experience. It's fun, but you can't ride it again and again without a break, it's too much.
I rode Thunderhead in June of this year and it was INSANELY smooth, the entire thing. My absolute favorite wooden coaster. I rode that thing at least 10 times in a single day and never had a bad ride, front center and back. They were great rides!
Lol because I did the exact same thing
Mean Streak was ghastly by the end. We used to call it the "bad chiropractor"
Mean streak was my roughest coaster ever, actually the worst coaster I have ever ridden. If you have ever snapped a flyers ride and you get the seat rest to slam into your back, do that about 79 times a minute for the duration of the prime ride time on Mean Streak. I never wanted off a coaster as bad as I wanted off of Mean Streak.
Tale of two Cyclones: The Psyclone at Magic mountain was truly painful. It would hurt you with all the track discontinuities. The Coney Island Cyclone was a pleasant surprise. It wasn't smooth, but it didn't have the broken track feeling of some of the bad coasters. I think it was smoother than the subway I took to get there.
I miss the Blue Streak at CLP and I despise what was done with the park (don't get me started on Cedar Fair and Geauga Lake). As for my roughest, Son of Beast is the only coaster to give me chest pains. Mean Streak was like riding in an earthquake. Coney Island Cyclone beat me to a pulp.
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Spot on for thunderhead. It is ridiculous how rough it is. People defend it for what I don't know.
When I was a kid, I thought Renegade (Valleyfair) was the roughest thing ever, and didn't like it...
I got re-rides and it's much better, even though the roughness was probably the same
Also if you want a back row experience without the pain, do row 11, it's the same but smoother
Great American Scream Machine before the retracking felt like a trainwreck itself. Huge improvement and way less rough. Definitely try it
Chris, please tell me you never rode Mean Streak? If so, I can't understand why that isn't number 1 😂. Worst ride I've ever been on!
Good topic. Me and my family seem to have a special love for wooden coasters. What's funny is that we also rode Renegade this year but we had a different experience. We didn't find it that rough and it made it into all of our top 20. I wonder if we just caught it on a good day.
We did find High Roller (the other ValleyFair woodie) to be absolutely terrible and extremely rough.
I do agree Outlaw at Adventureland is getting rough and I hope now that the park is owned by Palace it will get some of the love the old Kennywood woodies got. Because when it was smoother I thought it was a hidden gem.
Love your channel. Thanks for all the content!
The only coaster I ever came off of in pain was Mean Streak.
The roughest wooden Coaster of all time to me is Mean Streak. You never know how long that coaster really was until you get whiplash after the 2nd hill lol. Seeing this list makes me want to give so much love to Kennywood for keeping their old-school woodies buttery smooth after all these years.
I didn’t think Mean Streak was rough. It was incredibly boring.
I never really had a ROUGH ride on MS
Chris Maxwell I agree pretty much my thoughts
As someone who rode both mean streak, and blue streak, blue streak was 100 times worse than mean streak. Blue Streak is the most sketch coaster I've ever been on. Even when I was a kid, that coaster was sketchy, and that was in the late 80s.
I'm with you. Mean Streak wasn't terribly bad in the front, but the back was a different story. I was begging to get off when I reached the midcourse, and while the airtime provided a little relief from the roughness, there wasn't enough of it to redeem the ride.
Rolling Thunder at Great Adventure hurt like hell in 2010 and was literally underneath El Toro so surprising it lasted as long as it did. Mean Streak was down when I went so I dodged a bullet.
Great American Scream Machine takes the cake for me, it was so bad in 2020. Oddly enough, when it had buzz bars it wasn't so bad, but when SFOG put Georgia Cyclone's old trains on it the ride became unrideable.
I just rode Roar at Six Flags America this past Saturday and i thought it was pretty smooth, they did do some retracking
Hercules @ Dorney Park was the roughest coaster ever made. I raced motocross in the late 80's and that coaster made MX seem like a limo ride.
Love seeing comments from people who had a soft spot for Blue Streak. That was my mom's first coaster when she was a kid, and me and my brother's first coaster, too. Started my love for coasters, but I was terrified every time I rode that ride lol. My mom passed away recently and we spread her ashes at Conneaut. The piles of Blue Streak wreckage were still there, walked around most of the layout, pretty insane to see. Helped myself to a piece of the ride that I keep out on display now.
Thats great you were able to get a piece of it
Monstre at La Ronde with the yellow train is straight up dangerous because of how rough it is (but again, only the yellow train, red train and green train are way better, somehow)
I think you should do, "Top coasters that you haven't ridden that could be the worst" just because sometimes people hear bad reviews of certain coasters and they are right.
The Beast was very smooth and great when I rode it in July of this year.
I rode it in June and I thought it was fine too. But I’ve ridden Wildcat at Lake Compounce and now everything feels smooth.
Yea because they retracked it this year
I heard it was retracted this year
There is still a few spots that need a re-track. The last sharp right that is before the second lift hill should be redone.
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv I knew that it was retracked and therefore was going to be smooth but I was impressed by how good the retracking was.
I think some of this has to do with expectations changing over time. If you put me on a wooden coaster and it feels smooth as a steel coaster, I'm not going to be thrilled. My favorite coaster personally is the grizzly at Kings Dominion and that has a lot to do with how rough it is.
Expectations sure..also pain
Grizzly isn't that rough in the front, I rode it last year and I have it as number three in the park. I love the setting and it has some great pops of air up in the front
The retrack of the Grand National has it running acceptably, it’s never going to be butter smooth (conversions aside) but it did show up how rough Big Dipper has become, I would hope for a 100th anniversary retrack but they’re open so late and then so early in the year now (weekends only for a lot, but Feb to Dec) there’s not enough time.
Big dipper was HELL- I had such high hopes for this legendary coaster but they were crushed as soon as we went through that first hill
I live in Albuquerque! The New Mexico Rattler was the only rollercoaster I had been on! But I visited Magic Mountain last month and WOW I can't wait to visit more park and ride all the rollercoasters! Also a huge fan of your channel now ha!
I'm surprised ghostrider pre-refurb didn't make it. It was beyond brutal when I rode it the first time. Thank god for gci for fixing it and making it run like a dream.
Son of beast was too rough on opening day...
Still loved it
@@qoscarjenkins9527 I love it more now 🤪
Beast 2021 was HORRIBLE. Beast 2022 on the other hand was AMAZING. So glad they fixed it up!
Have you ridden Blue Streak at Cedar Point this year? It was the roughest ride I've ever had on a woody, and my husband and I rode in a center seat. Mean Streak never beat me up that much, and it was awful too.
Blue Steak at CP is the roughest ride I've ever taken.
S.O.B. was only 12th? This makes me both sad and happy. Happy you avoided the crap shoot that was peak roughness, but sad that you avoided peak roughness and have such a huge mouthpiece for this coaster and can't actually share how bad it truly truly was, only to then throw its father even higher than it on the list...
I went to Dollywood for my first time this year, and as much as I absolutely adored Thunderhead (so much so that it's still in my top ten), I can agree that it's pretty rough. While I could stomach three consecutive back row rides on it, it's definitely a difficult ride to marathon (especially if you're dehydrated) in the state it's currently in. Like you said, a little bit of retracking on the first half would do wonders for it.
What it will just be rough in four years I first visited Dollywood and wondered why I had a headache it was rough then and now even in some retracked sections
I first visited in 2012 and it was rough
I've heard Gold Striker was bad before. But 2021 was fantastic, and this season it was running better than it ever had before. I think it just shows how intense the coaster is. It's already getting some of it's rough spots back, not terrible at all, but you can start to feel them again. It just runs so aggressively. I compare it to Voyage's spaghetti bowl and return trip. It's just straight, pedal to the metal speed, airtime, and intensity.
Rest in Peace Blue Streak, you were an awesome ride. I marathoned that ride once, 6 times in a row. Airtime was nice and you learn to stop caring about the roughness after a while.
No Ghost Rider pre re-track? Lol that thing was dangerously rough although the layout is legendary 👌
I couldn’t enjoy hades because it was just too rough! My dad rode it last month and his back still hurts lol
I’ve marathoned Renegade many times this season. The only rough section I really notice is the bottom of the first drop, though I tend to tolerate roughness more than others. It’s definitely smoother in the front of the train but the back is so much better it’s worth the extra roughness.
I definitely felt the jackhammer throughout the ride, the worst of it seemed to be in the middle
Fun story.
My roughest woodie experience is hurler at carowinds.
If we are talking about worst experience on a woodie, that hands down goes to thunderhead at dollywood.
I was in the station waiting to get on the ride; sat down in the back row, lap bar went down and locked and then i got stung by a bee. Me having allergies, i was starting to roll out of the station wondering if i was about to get jackhammered all over the placed while also entering anaphalaxis 😂. A ride op starting their shift and riding next to us looked back and went "you gonna be ok?" I said: "LETS HOPE SO"
That was also the day i discovered my allergies do not include bees.
I road the Beast yesterday in 2022 and I expected the worst and found it SOOO amazing. It surpassed my expectations
Rode Grizzly a few weeks ago and is was fairly rough...Didnt think it was anywhere near as bad as Mineblower though.
I had a love hate relationship with the Blue Streak. I loved that ride but it definitely hurt to ride it. I do have 3 that are not on your list that are as ruff or worse. 1 The big dipper at Camden Park in west Virginia, 2 The Thunderbolt at SFNE. The valleys on that are brutal. I tried to lift myself up with my arms and it still hurt. And Number 3 the ruffest coaster I've ever rode, It's currently SBNO The Cyclone at Williams Grove in Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania.
If you ever journey back to Lake Compounce give wildcat a try. Can’t speak for blue streak or GASM, but no way it could be lower than 3 on this list
I just got on the boss last Sunday and I rode mine blower in January of 2021. The boss was way more rough than mine blower. I also rode psyclone back in the day. Don’t really remember it too much tho.
The layout for Psyclone at MM was great, but so rough! That was the 1 coaster I knew would be on this list, lol
I’m glad Grizzly made the list, because I thought it was really rough the last time I rode it. If it wasn’t on the list, I was going to feel like a wuss. 😂
Pre retrack Ghostrider at Knotts was particularly horrible. 2010-2015 or so it was a 100% certified pain machine. Also the Coney Island Cyclone, a classic but another certified pain machine.
I live in Florida, so sadly I haven't gotten to experience many wooden coasters, but I rode the OG Gwazi (both sides) in it's last year of operation. Man, Gwazi beat the hell out of you, my knees and hips in particular. It was awful
Yep.😌I’m a Floridian as well.😌I only got to ride the lion side of the OG Gwazi. 🥺But woof!😌Talk about rough.😝Though lion Gwazi was smooth as silk compared to that hell-beast Anaconda from King’s Dominion.😝
@@ChibiProwl my last ride on OG Gwazi was tiger side. Kid you not, we stalled on the lift hill and had to walk down the ride back to the station. After getting off, I went to the lion side and it proceeded to kick my ass.
That was my last ride on Gwazi
@@kingpiniv yep, lion side kicked my butt too.
Grizzly at Kings Dominion got refurbished last year (2023) on the 1st half of the ride. It is smooth enough to cause you to let your guard down, and then...WHAM! WELCOME TO PAIN TOWN!
It's a shame you didn't get to ride the beast this year when you visited, because it wasn't open yet, but the Beast is now SUPER smooth. Actually so smooth is lost some of its anger through the woods. Thanks to the ride being silky smooth now there is actually a line to ride it.
I know, i really didn't realize it wouldn't be open until i was on the way there
Big Updates.
The Beast after the 2022 retrack is amazing!
Grizzly had a major retrack overhaul during the winter, including rebuilding the lift hill , can't wait to ride it this summer.
MineBlower at Fun Spot Kissimmee is getting RMC Ibox retracking!
Great American Scream Machine was fun, rode it a few weeks ago. The last quarter of the ride coming back to the station was a bit janky but I was kinda like that's ok.
Guess you weren't around in the late 70's early 80's to ride (1963) Mister Twister at the old Elich Gardens. Now the (1927) Wild Cat there was much smoother. These are gone now.
Rode hadas 360 the other week. After being on almost 100 rollercoasters, Hadas was the first one I thought I could actually die on 😂
Hurler at Kings Dominion was the roughest roller coaster I've ridden. Thank goodness RMC fixed the whole thing. The roughest ride I've ridden that's currently operating is Wildcat at Lake Compounce.
Nice vid! I have to agree, Hades360 to-this-day is by far the roughest coaster I've ever been on. I felt like I was in a car accident afterwards. I see no need to ride it again!
That being said, I found the Beast to be not-so-bad...riding at night was amazing.
The only two wooden coasters that come to mind for roughness to me are Racer at Kings Island in 2018 (the retrack did make it a lot smoother) and KD's Grizzly. That darn near snapped my spine.
Great American Scream Machine I literally contemplated never riding coasters again as we pulled into the station
Lake compounce is my home park. Wildcat is absolutely awful. The first drop and pullout are miraculously fine, but after that, it's terrible. The retracking didn't help it at all, I think it made it worse actually. I would suggest riding it once for the credit and then never again.
I ended up with actual bruises after riding The Boss once at 6 flags St. Louis. I totally agree they should RMC it. They could call it CEO!
Roar at SFA is actually better this year. It’s still boring, but I didn’t get hurt on it this year either of the times I rode it. Last year was a way different story.
I go to Holiday World every year, and I agree, usually the Legend was the rough coaster that I rode to "check it off the list", but the last couple years, it's been noticeably smoother and is SO much more enjoyable for it!
Legend is my number two at Holiday World and one of my favorite wooden coasters over all. I just love all the well executed laterals it has especially that helix. The only ride that has better laterals IMO is the Coney Island Cyclone but that's for one reason: no seat divider and they let you ride alone, sliding all over the place while also getting airtime is an absolute blast
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv It's become my #2 at Holiday World as well since becoming smoother, though my favorite parts are the hills at the beginning
I rode Gold Striker about a month ago and it was still super rough. The first drop was completely smooth but the rest of the ride was just as rough as I remember, if not more so. I don't understand the people who think it's smooth now. Did we even ride the same coaster?
Correct! The Beast retracking is incredible. I used to skip this ride and now I can ride 3 in a row. The trick is also to not sit in a car on top of a wheel.
Row 17 was a blast.
I Always ride row 17. Unless I'm with friends who want to ride up front. Although, front row at night is pretty epic.
Spike, night time ride 20+ years ago for me was epic. Something I still have stuck in my head.
The Cyclone at Lakeside always feels like its going to fall apart fun ride, but really rough.
You have to experience the Montezum in Brazil, it's a RCCA rough as hell.
Pain doesn't define the experience.
Kentucky rumbler should be included. That fractured my back. It’s really bad
As a Darien Lake home parker, I love Predator it has like 5 ejector moments in the back & it's smooth!
Roughest I’ve experienced was Mean Streak in 2009. Knocked the wind out of me lmao.
I love rough wooden coasters. Alot of the ones you ranked on here like Mineblower Hades and New Mexico Rattler are some of my all time favorite rides. Their definitely not for everyone but I love how rough and unhinged Gravity Groups and CCI'S feel.
How did Boss not make this list? I thought for sure you'd have it high on the list.
I agree ; the boss is rough and Screaming Eagle was when I last rode it in 2018
@idkwhattoputhere I agree the front is way better
I think the new Great American scream machine will drop off the list.
You need to go back to Gold Striker! I went last summer and it was GOLD
Have you not been to Canada’s Wonderland? Two of their wooden coasters are incredibly bad - Wilde Beast & Might Canadian Minebuster. They deserve to be on this list once you ride them.
So, Top Thrill Dragster and El Toro...
I can confirm that the new Titan track on Predator at Darien Lake has made the ride WAY more enjoyable. It's still bumpy but far from "painful" like it was before
Recent memory: Grizzly, for sure.
Ancient memory: the original Texas Giant
Unpopular opinion, but I think Outlaw run has to be one of the roughest coasters I’ve been on. Only in a few spots is it really noticeable, but there are a few spots on the ride where it jackhammers like crazy. It’s also only been my rides in this season and last season. Still a great ride though fortunately
Grizzly at KD is the only coaster i’ve ridden thus far where I had to motivate myself to get through the ride, and that’s after having ridden stuff like Roar and Wildcat
You never rode mean streak before it became steel vengeance?
Seeing how Grizzly is now gonna be retracked by the Gravity Group, it’s in good hands
Come to Blackpool and try the grand national….it’s rougher than an alky locked in a distillery….
Racer at kings island needs serious help right now. I’m young and in shape and was almost struggling to walk around after I got off
I agree with all of these, thunderhead is higher on the list for me though.
Thunder run at KK is the worst for me. Gave me whiplash
Video idea: best and worst color schemes. Based on how it looks, unique-ness, and theme fitting, as well as probably others
Oh ok this will be a fun video to watch. I love listening to other enthusiast picking on coaster haha and the roughest wooden coaster I have been on was Wolverine wildcat but the titan track part was good
I wanna ride the Beast. I heard that the owner of the Blue Streak park burned it on purpose. Ouch! People say Minebuster and Wildebeast are rough. They are 41yrs old. I love them.
I have to leave off Texas Giant, Mean Streak, and Rattler, since it was too long ago when I rode them to remember well, but Rattler was probably the worst of all time.
8. Roar--2019 & 2021. 2019 front row was quite smooth, 2021 towards the back was quite rough, but I still thought about not even mentioning it here.
7. Great American Scream Machine--2016, 2019, 2020. That 2016 ride was so brutal, but it has ridden great for me since. Even my 2019 ride was only a little rough.
6. Hades 360--2019. I could tolerate it, and I love the ride, but for roughness alone, it belongs on this list.
5. Legend--2020 & 2021. 2020 rode great, but my 2021 rides were terrible.
4. Wildcat (Lake Compounce)--2019. A small & slow woodie shouldn't be that horribly rough.
3. Grizzly (KD)--2018 & 2021. 2018 was tolerable and actually fun-rough, but my 2021 rides were horrible.
2. Mine Blower--every year from 2019-2022. 2019 & 2020 were tolerable, but my February 2022 rides is what got it here.
1. Boss--2016, 2018, 2021. It was unbearably rough on all 6 lifetime rides over those 3 visits. By far the worst of any I've ridden.
Wolverine Wildcat--riding the middle row of any car, and it was a somewhat smooth ride, so it's nowhere near my list.
Predator in 2019 was fine. Smooth in the front, a little rough but better forces in the back.
This summer, I missed out on Hellcat & NM Rattler, both closed the day I visited. I'm guessing they both would've made my list. I never visited Conneaut.
I got to ride Boss this year and I personally didn't think it was that bad in fact I quite enjoyed it. I agree with Roar, F that ride so fing much it was so rough that my tricks for ridding rough wooden coasters didn't even make it tolerable. BTW I have three horrible defunct wooden coasters on my crap wooden coaster list that you don't: Villain and Raging Wolf Bob's at Geauga Lake (both of them sucked, they also both ran the same trains the Boss does) and Hercules at Dorney Park (Yes I'm 26 and I actually got to ride this, needless to say I'm happy its gone that first turn was BRUTAL!)
I must say I'm surprised you didn't put Ghost Rider on here. Sure, it's been smooth since GCI came in, but I legitimately think that 2015 Ghost Rider might have been the most painful experience I've ever had on a ride.
I didn't ride Ghostrider between 2010 and 2017 so I completely bypassed its bad years
@@AirtimeThrills you lucky man
Not sure if you’ve ever ridden these but I would add Hercules and thunder hawk at dorney park